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“The cultural event being threatened in this case was Christmas, that most Anglo-Saxon of festivals whereby the birth of a Jewish baby in a Middle Eastern stable two thousand years ago is commemorated.”
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James O'Brien,
How To Be Right: … in a world gone wrong

“Despite the title of this book, it is refreshing, in an age of increasingly reductionist and binary debate, to recognise the importance of sometimes saying the three most undervalued words in the English language: I don’t know.”
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James O'Brien,
How To Be Right: … in a world gone wrong

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And, having no respect, he ceases to love. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov”
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James O'Brien,
How To Be Right: … in a world gone wrong